David Hornik

This are awesome sneakers. They look great. But they are suede, so they get dirty pretty quickly.

This was a truly fascinating and disturbing documentary. As someone who worked hard to defeat California's Proposition 8, it was upsetting to learn about the Mormon Church's strong arm tactics to raise millions of dollars in support of the proposition.

Good falafel. Very good service. And one of the few restaurants that most of the family can agree upon.

Jean-Michel Basquiat is considered one of the most important artists in the last 50 years. One of his pieces recently sold at auction for nearly $15M. While he was quite prolific during his short life (he produced 1,000 paintings before dying of a drug overdose at age 26), the universe of existing Basquiat paintings is relatively small. I recently attended a Basquiat retrospective and it was a big, bold show. This documentary does a nice job of chronicling Basquiat's life. I found the discussion of his life fascinating (although it didn't leave me much of a fan of Basquiat).

Love these shoes. They are really fun (unless you don't like very very bright footware).

This is a really terrible movie. The acting is bad. The pacing is bad. The script is bad. It is just terrible.

This is not the best constructed documentary I've seen, but the subject matter is fascinating. Thousands of children were taken in by British families in the months preceding the official declaration of WWII. The documentary recounts the path of a number of the young Jewish children who were sent to England (without their parents) to escape the holocaust. The powerful stories of these adults retelling the tales of their experiences is both engrossing and heart breaking. Well worth watching.

My son is a Thirty Rock fanatic.

Super cool but didn't fit my kid.

My whole family enjoys this movie. Meryl Streep is at her very best here. Worth watching the movie just to enjoy Streep's performance. I personally could do without the Julie (Amy Adams) part of the movie. I have no problem with Adams' performance, I'd just rather have more Julia Child.

Love Three Seasons. Love getting a discount at Three Seasons.

The Joan Rivers documentary is at moments funny, but mostly pretty melancholy. Joan herself is the hardest woman in show business. But you wonder why she bothers. She seems to measure her life by her ability to employ a staff of a dozen but then has to fly all over the planet doing any work she can get to support them. In the end, she seems very lonely.

It is probably inappropriate for me to review my own son's song. But, for what it is worth, this song is awesome :)

Noah is a fan of this boarding jacket.

Books Inc is a great bookstore. What is the morally correct thing to do when you already frequent a business? Should you use a Groupon? Or is that inappropriate? I struggle with that question.

This is a fantastic "documentary." The only problem is that I'm not sure if it is, in fact, a documentary. I think there is a reasonable chance that the entire thing is a setup. Who's documentary is it? Who is it actually about? Is the art world a total scam? These, and many other questions, are left open after watching "exit Through the Gift Shop." Please watch this movie and let me know what you think. You'll enjoy it.

Love the sunshirt. So much easier than sunscreen.

My wife is a big fan of Douce France.

This is a stunning movie. It chronicles the fate of the most important art in Europe during the course of World War II. Hitler, a failed artist, and his highest officers were all art "collectors" -- which is to say that they stole the most important art in the world for their own purposes. In an effort to protect the important pieces in Paris's Louvre and Russia's Hermitage, both museums were evacuated during WWII and sent into the countryside. It is stunning the efforts made to protect the art during this horrible war but, in many instances to no avail -- 50 Million people died and thousands of the greatest pieces of art were lost. It is a great reminder of the immense inhumanity and horror of WWII.

It would appear that we can litterally never have too many pairs of laceless Converse in the house -- thus my son's song "Laceless Converse":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUCobEilOa4&feature=player_embedded